SEOForge vs RankYak

Hey everyone, if you don't know me, my name is Alex. I'm the founder of SEOForge.ai, and I've been in the SEO space for over 10 years now. I used SEO as a main growth channel to grow two of my previous startups, a B2C mobile application to over 200,000 users, and a B2B government contracting software to over 1,500 customers. Today we're reviewing RankYak. I came across this website, to be honest with you, I saw one of their ads on Facebook and I just wanted to check it out and show you guys exactly how it works and see if it's worth your time, if it's worth investing the effort to actually try this tool and use it on your website.

I'll actually go ahead and sign up for this thing, pay for it, and show you exactly how it works in this video. I've just signed up to RankYak. Let's see how it works. This is their onboarding process. I'm a business. Let's say that my company name is Sally. I'm gonna try it on a random website whose SEO I really, really respect. “Welcome to RankYak.” How did you hear about us? Well, it was Facebook. Let's get started. I'll just say Framer and then your domain.

Let's try this. Okay, now it's analyzing my website, target audience, language, and location. So it looks like RankYak actually gave me a description of the business. It's quite long, but I did skim through it and it looks pretty spot on. So we're gonna continue to the target audience. That is pretty spot on as well. And then the United States. English. We'll leave it at that. Let's see what happens next. I see it's generating core topics. I'm excited about this one. So it just generated the core topics that it believes, my website will benefit from.

And I think this one is a good one, this one is good, this one, definitely this one, and I would say that one. So that's 5 topics. I like this animation, that's pretty cool. Okay, so my growth plan is ready. So I see this is like their paywall, personalized growth plan, 30 SEO/GEO articles, 1 per day, keyword research. Publishing straight to your site, automatic content optimization driven by your Search Console data. I see your growth potential, the traffic, what's included.

Yeah, I mean, let's try it. Now let's see the main dashboard. So it's creating my content strategy, finding my best keywords, content calendar, writing your first article. Let's see the calendar. So the first keyword that it's targeting is EHR integration, HIPAA compliant, a receptionist, a voice agent for healthcare, low difficulty. I think that one is a high difficulty here, judging from experience. EHR integration is a very high difficulty keyword. EHR integration API, same thing here. Okay.

Those are not bad, keywords. This is pretty good. So yeah, I wonder, can I move them around? So it can swap. Yeah, yeah, okay. I like this. I'm really curious to see the first article. And while the first article is being generated, let's just check the other thing. So this is just a view of the actual keywords. So ready to plan. And so 39 keywords planned total. So that's about what, 40 articles, right? Okay, I kind of like the keywords here, but I also think it's very easy to cannibalize your own articles.

So cannibalization means when 2 or more of your pages are trying to rank for the same keyword. So for example, you have HIPAA compliant AI and then HIPAA compliant AI agent. That's actually very, very similar. So that can actually end up with you losing potential traffic and actual traffic just because you're having two or more articles competing for the same, keyword. So I think some of it could be improved, you know. I think that here and based on my own experience, you could have primary keyword and then secondary keywords and then have only one article target this group of keywords instead of just- yeah, you see, they've sort of done this like grouping, but then some of the grouping is not accurate.

So they've at least had an attempt at it. So the article is being generated, and then “your site can't join the backlink exchange yet. Publish an article to join.” So you need to actually start your trial in order to start getting backlinks. So let's see the calendar. It's still writing the article. I'll come back as soon as the article is generated, just so I don't waste your guys' time. So the first article has been generated, and I'm so excited to dig into it. It's quite funny. I mean, when the article is generated by the platform, you would of course give it a score of 100, right?

Because you're scoring it against the criteria you've made. So this one is a bit, I think, deceiving. And then I see it gives us the title and meta description. So the SEO title, it's good. I would recommend adding the year inside just to signal freshness, and specifically for AI search, adding the year in. So for example, saying EHR integration in 2026, right, what it means and how to do it right, that would actually be better because it will make AI chats cite you way more often.

And then the meta description is fine as well. Let's look at the article. Yeah, and then we have a link to another one of the blog posts. I like that. Okay, so the first thing that's missing here is you want to have a short introduction, like a paragraph usually. So for example, this is absolutely fine, but what this is missing desperately is key takeaways. So having 3 to 5 bullet points explaining exactly what your article is about actually helps with AI search specifically a lot. And the reason why is because studies show that when, you know, for example, ChatGPT or Claude, when one of the AI crawlers comes to your website, most of the citations that they put out in responses come from the first 500 words of the web pages they reference.

So if you add the most citable, the most interesting information in the top 500 words of your articles, you're way more likely to be cited in AI responses. So this article here is missing that. It's just giving 3 paragraphs in the introduction, no key takeaways. I see it generated this image. It's fine. I'm curious. I can replace it. Okay, that's cool. So I see a bullet point list, that's fine. I like this image, it's nice.

It looks a little bit AI-generated, but it's okay. And then a table too, I kind of like that. The one thing that I would say this article is missing overall, while I'm skimming through it: it's great that it's linking other blog articles from Sally's website. What's missing is actually linking to external websites. So for example, here you see there's a link right there, so it's linking to hl7.org, which is a reputable website. And you need to have more of this.

So when you make claims within your website, you need to prove that they come from reputable sources. And Google actually released an article recently that mentions that they don't really care so much if an article or content is AI-generated as long as the information is accurate. So you need to make sure that you show Google that the information you have is accurate by linking to reputable external websites. So government websites, organization websites, things like that. So it did it here once, but that's not enough for a medical article.

And then those are links to other blog posts, another image, “Common EHR integration challenges.”. I like that. Where to start. So that's sort of the CTA section, meaning if someone, you know, read all the way at the bottom, you wanna drive them along the funnel to the next step, which is this. So I like this. However, right here at the bottom, this article is missing two things, and one of them is crucial and the other one is really important but not so crucial. The first thing is there are no FAQs, so there is no frequently asked questions section at the bottom of the article in order to capture different types of typing in the same keyword, different intents.

So for example, let's say if someone searches for what are the common challenges for setting up an EHR integration, what's the best EHR integration, does Sally offer an EHR integration? So the main keyword here is EHR integration, but through the FAQs, what you do is you capture different ways that people type in this specific keyword, right? This topic, you can call it so. So this article is missing that. And second, like I mentioned, what's really important but not so crucial is a sources section.

So you want to show search engines and also human readers too that there's been research that went into writing this article. It looks like a research paper, right? And every research paper has a sources or references section at the bottom that says, hey, we've used those websites, those papers and journals in order to conduct our research and write this paper. The same goes for blog articles too. This is like one of my hacks that I use all the time. And in my experience it has been shown to increase your rankings and hence increase traffic because it really improves the trust signals and authority signals that you're giving to search engines as well as to human readers.

So I think this article is missing 3 crucial things. A key takeaway section in order to get more traffic from AI search like ChatGPT and Claude. A section at the bottom, an FAQ section at the bottom, so you can capture more AI search traffic too, because people type prompts, not keywords anymore. But also to type in the different ways that people can be typing the keyword into traditional search engines, and a sources section so you can show that, you know, there's been actual research done based on reputable sources into writing this article. So while I think the article is good overall, right?

It looks engaging with the pictures. It's really missing those 3 core things. And without those 3 core things, in my experience, you'll really be losing significant traffic. So now I would love to show you the platform that I've created and poured my 10+ years of experience in SEO and more recently AI search that does those 3 crucial items for you and more. And like I've mentioned in the beginning of the video, I'm the founder of SEOForge.ai and I've taken my 10 plus years of experience in SEO and applied them to the platform so you can get the most value out of it. I would love to show you how it works.

So first of all, the main difference is the fact that we actually generate a full content plan for you for the next three months. We don't just show you the next five articles we'll write for you. That's just random keyword targeting and that just doesn't work anymore. But what we actually do is we build topic clusters. So. You give us your website, we identify 600 keywords that are high intent for your business, and then we use those 600 keywords to actually create, let's say 90 to 100 or 120 article ideas. And we group those article ideas into topic clusters, meaning there will be a specific strategy and plan as to how we do internal linking between those articles, what external articles and sources will link to, and so on.

And now let me show you exactly how an article that we generate looks like. So this is one of the article examples that we've generated for this website in the AI, healthcare space. And you can see here, I mean the article is just way more comprehensive. We don't like using stock images or a generated stock images. We like creating charts, infographics, things that people will find super useful. And also they will help you get more traffic from people who are searching for images to use in presentations, social media posts or anything like that. These are really valuable images. It's not just, you know, fluff placeholder images.

And then we realized from our research that LLMs, AI search engines like Claude and ChatGPT, they usually cite the information from the top 500 words of each web page. So if you want to get more traffic from AI search, which actually is shown to convert at a way higher rate, you will need to include your key insights, data, unique perspectives in the top 500 words of each blog article. So this is why every article comes with a key takeaway section where we do exactly this. And this has worked amazing for some of our customers who are actually getting confirmed, incredibly more AI citations than before.

Our articles also come fully optimized for SEO and GEO with meta descriptions, meta titles and featured images. Like I mentioned, we don't like creating fluffy images. Every image is on brand and provides actual value. So you can get more traffic from Google, image search and other sort of image search engines. And every article also comes with an FAQ section so you can capture more intent from that keyword. So let's say if in this case the main keyword we target is healthcare AI platform, well, someone will just search on Google healthcare AI platform, someone will search.

What is the best healthcare AI platform? Someone will search, how do you handle AI safety in healthcare platforms? So in order to capture all those intents and all those queries together, this is exactly why we have the FAQ section. Because the FAQ section helps capture and target all those queries around the main keyword. And apart from that, we don't just have an FAQ section, right? We have more than that, we have a sources section. So the sources section shows that this article was actually thoroughly researched and it's not just some AI slop and fluff, that was just generated, but there has been some actual thinking and reasoning behind this article.

And this is super useful because it shows traditional search engines, AI search engines and human readers that hey, the team behind this article actually did thorough research and they came up with a good article. It's not just fluff and we also like to include, just above the Sources section, a CTA section. And I think this is super important. And most people actually skip this. But imagine that someone comes, reads most of your article, or skims to read, goes all the way to the bottom of the page, and you do nothing with that. I mean, will you just let them leave the website and go to someone else? Go to, potentially one of your competitors? No, you should have a clear CTA section.

And the catch here is that the CTA section in each article needs to be contextual to that article. Because if a person comes and searches for the best healthcare platform, you specifically need to have your CTA section. Talk about that and what makes you the best platform and the best solution for what they're looking for. And I mean, the results speak for themselves. We have the website here that's about AI healthcare automations. And as you can see, using SEOForge.ai, it managed to get 2.6K AI citations, as confirmed by Bing Webmaster Tools from Microsoft Copilot in the past three months.

I mean, that's just incredible. 2.6K citations, in fact. Just because I know the customer, they've managed to drive over 80 leads from this alone. And it doesn't just stop here. We also track their Google search console, and as you can see, in three months as well, they've managed to drive over 300 clicks and 56,000 impressions with an average position of seven. So if you can imagine, their blog articles are actually ranking on the first page of Google after three months, after just registering their domain in a very competitive space. This is super, super amazing. And So like I mentioned before, the platform is called SEOForge.ai. We're a super small team and we're trying to build something incredibly valuable.

This is why our article generator doesn't just take the top performing Google search results, it actually scans for public databases, for data online. It collects that data, it looks at research papers if it needs to. It tries to find unique insights, unique perspectives, unique data in different places, brings all of that together using our research agent, and then creates a deeply researched and just insightful and interesting article for both human readers and AI agents. My name is Alex and I'm so thankful for you for watching this video. If you have any questions for me, if you have any feedback, if you want to check us out, you'll find the 20% off for life discount code in the description and feel free to always reach out to me.

I genuinely want to see you succeed. Thank you so much for your attention and I'll see you in the next video.